Kisumu
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 Kisumu |
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| county | Kisumu County | ||
| Residents | 322,734 pop. | ||
| height | 1131 m | ||
| Coordinates | 0 ° 5 ′ S , 34 ° 46 ′ E | ||
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Kisumu is a port town of about 322,734 inhabitants in the northeast of Lake Victoria and west of the Great African grave breach of Kenya . It is the third largest city in Kenya and the capital of Kisumu County . Kisumu is the center of the Luo , the third largest ethnic group in the country.
Geography and climate
Kisumu is located on Winamgolf (formerly Kavirondo Gulf ), part of Lake Victoria , at an altitude of 1131 m above sea level. The daily maximum values are between 25 ° C and 28 ° C, the minimum values between 15 ° C and 16 ° C. The whole year round there is heavy rainfall, in April it is most productive with approx. 360 mm.
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Kisumu
Source: Kenya Meteorological Department, data: 1938–1990; wetterkontor.de
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history
The place was founded in 1901 under the name Port Florence as the end point of the Uganda Railway , which started in Mombasa on the Indian Ocean , where the goods were reloaded from the rail onto ships in order to transport them to Uganda . The name Port Florence is derived from the first name of the wife of the chief engineer of the railway line, Ronald Preston , who drove the last nail into the threshold of the track bed on December 19th when the railway line opened.
Since the completion of the direct rail connection to Uganda, which bypasses Kisumu, and the establishment of the East African individual states, the importance of the place as a trading and transshipment point has decreased significantly. A daily passenger train connection to Nairobi existed until 2013.
There is a friendship between cities with Cheltenham in Great Britain .
On January 17, 2013, six people died in a house collapse. 35 construction workers were injured and partially buried in the collapse of the building under construction. At the time of the accident, there were several street vendors and passers-by in front of the collapsed building. 23 people were rescued alive from the rubble shortly after the collapse.
economy
Kisumu is a trading center for agricultural goods in the area and their processed products. This mainly includes sugar production, fishing and the textile industry. Kenya Breweries has a large brewery here. The formerly huge rice plantations in the vicinity of the city have been fallow for years.
Several ferries go from the port of the city across Lake Victoria, also to Tanzania and Uganda . The Kisumu airport is located three kilometers west of the city.
Culture
Grace Ogot , the first woman writer in Africa and arguably the most important author in East Africa, was born on May 15, 1930 in Asembo near Kisumu. Ogot wrote novels and short stories in English and Luo , her mother tongue.
The Kisumu Museum has existed since 1980, presenting historical exhibits from the region as well as biological exhibits. The city is also home to a tiny zoo on the lakeshore, the Kisumu Impala Sanctuary . The airport connects the city daily with the capital Nairobi and other cities.
Facilities
In Kisumu, the HIV rate is 34 percent, the highest in Kenya. One third of the country's AIDS orphans live in this province of Nyanza. Kisumu is the seat of a Catholic archdiocese . An Apostolic Prefecture Kavirondo was established on July 15, 1925 and converted into a Vicariate Apostolic on May 27, 1932 . The first bishop was Gorgonius Brandsma from the Netherlands. On March 25, 1953, the vicariate was transformed into the diocese of Kisumu, which was eventually raised to an archdiocese after the diocese of Kakamega had previously been separated. The archbishopric was then created on May 21, 1990. The dioceses of Bungoma , Eldoret , Homa Bay , Kakamega , Kisii , Kitale and Lodwar are subordinate to him . Zacchaeus Okoth has been Archbishop since 1990 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenya Meteorological Department: Climate Information Kisumu. World Meteorological Organization, accessed October 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Shanghai Daily Death toll from building collapse rises to six in Kenya's Kisumu (English) from January 17, 2013
- ↑ HBR 103.5 FM HBR - Death Toll From Kisumu Building Collapse Rises ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) from January 17, 2013
- ↑ Training for AIDS orphans and education ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
